I've decided on my resolutions for this year, and they are as follows: I've made up the sign a little …
Tag: deep thoughts
Thoughts from November and January
I wrote this in my morning pages on 18 November 2008, after reading some Laura Ingalls Wilder and other historically-set …
Vacation cat is vacationing
I haven't written my morning pages in more than two weeks. I've decided I'm okay with that. I've been reading, …
The long view
Sometimes I'll feel my future open wide, and suddenly I'm able to see it like it's happening right this moment... …
Another entry on discipline, from a different angle this time
Yesterday Erik sent me this excerpt from Malcolm Gladwell's new book, Outliers. In it, Gladwell examines outstanding achievement in several …
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What stresses me out
I'm sitting here eating chocolate and fretting without knowing why. I feel stressed this afternoon and there's no good reason, …
On ritual and its relationship to discipline
Here is a lesson from today's yoga class: It is good, even when you don't feel like doing your usual …